Jerusalem Explored : being a description of the ancient and modern city, with numerous illustrations consisting of views, ground plans, and sections / by Ermete Pierotti ... translated by Thomas George Bonney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pierotti, Ermete.

Contributor:

Bonney, T. G. (Thomas George), 1833-1923.

Whiston, William, 1667-1752.

Traill, Robert, -1847.

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Jerusalem--Description and travel.

Jerusalem.

Jerusalem--Antiquities.

Penn Provenance:

Camac, William (donor)

Physical Description:

2 volumes : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 40 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Bell and Daldy ; Cambridge : Deighton, Bell and Co., 1864.

Contents:

v. 1. Text

v. 2. Plates.

Notes:

Translated from Pierotti's Italian ms.--Vol. 1, p. viii.

Imprint on lithographic plates (some printed with tan background tint) reads: "Cambridge, Deighton, Bell & Co. -- Day & Son Lithrs. to the Queen." The plans and elevations read: "E. Pierotti, mest. & delt."; on most of the other plates, drawn by Pierotti, the lithographer is identified as T. Picken, E. Walker, R. M. Bryson, A. Newman, or L. Cornelissen.

"Cambridge : Printed by C. J. Clay, M.A. at the University Press" (with printer's device)--Vol. 1 & 2, verso of half t.p.; printer statement repeated in colophon, v. 1, p. [340].

Vol. 1 xxi, 339, [1] p.; v. 2 [8] p., 63 leaves, 63 leaves of plates (some folded).

Title and publisher's device in red and black in both vols.

Vol. 1 includes "Passages from Josephus's Antiquities of the Jews", translated by William Whiston (v. 1, p. [323]-326), and "Passages from Josephus's History of the Jewish War", translated by Robert Traill (v. 1, p. [327]-332).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC:

51415447